Competency requirements in research information management and reporting: evidence from a national survey in Germany

Abstract

The advancement of research information management (RIM) and reporting is both a technical and a personnel matter. As such, task areas and competencies of Current Research Information System (CRIS) managers have been increasingly recognized as important topics of professional development and study. Research on human resource development indicates that competencies can be integrated into a comprehensible, application-related, and future-oriented framework: a so called competency model. In this paper we intend to empirically enrich and concretize earlier work on a competency model for RIM as an emerging task area. The model is ultimately intended to represent different competency requirements and job profiles.